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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2361, 27 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities. Ip you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. Which is the ugliest tree ? —The planetree. Which is the most sociable tree?— The tea-tree. A Stare-way. —The theatre corridor after a matinee. What trees keep order best ?—The birch and the elder. A young lady is not like a tree. You cannot estimate her age by counting her rings. Why is it that a man naturally puts his pen in the gum pot, and the gum brush in the ink? If it were not for the church belles, a good many yonng men would not be drawn to Sunday meetings. . . A rather cynical lady, somewhat of aflirt, says most men, like colds, are easily caught, but difficult to get rid of. Never show impatience. Always defend the absent as far as truth will, admit.— Addison. Do not anticipate trouble and worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.—Franklin. No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech. Always learn to think and act for yourself. Learn to say no ;it will be of more service to you than to be able to read Latin. —Lavater. Scene—Edinburgh Castle. Tourist, to Highland sentry on a cold bleak morning : “Sentry, are you cold with the kilt?” Sentry ;“Na, but I’m near kilt wi’ the oauld.” Professor Herrmann, the celebrated conjuror has just died in Carlsbad, at the age of 72. He was born in Hanover, of Polish parents, and educated in Prance. He had become a millionaire by the pratioe of his profession, and had formed a magaifioiont collection of works of art. The following case of accidental poisoning happened in Rome a short time ago : —One of the Colonna princes who lives at Villa Massimo had ordered his study to be cleared of some objects he had been using in amateur photography, and desired a servant in attendance to be especially careful iu throwing away a phial ,of bi-chromate of potash and sulphuric acid. At the moment, the Princess Colonna-Massimo rang for the servant, who placed the phial on a small table. Shortly after, the Prince and the servants who were helping to clear the place having left the room, another attendant, the Prince’s old orderly, coming in, saw the bottle, and mistaking .the liquid for wine poured out a glass and drank it off. He screamed in agony, and although every remedy was tried inline[Lately, he died next day, after great suffering iu the Hospital of San Giacomo.